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PEESIDENT'S ADDllKSS. 
 
 Address of P. Alex. Pf.tekson, Piiesident Canadian 8.>ciety' 
 
 Civil Engineers, on Leaving the Chair at close 
 
 OF Annual Meeting, January 2r)tli, 1895. 
 
 One of tlio dutks ol' iLe [Jti^ition to which the Society, a year iv^n, 
 electcil iiic, if-' the delivery of an address at tlie closie of my teiiii of 
 oflice. Tt h:is been customary for tlie Presidents of sister Societies to 
 fiive a gcner.il review of tlie professionid jnogress and scientific advance- 
 ment in subjects wliich allude to our profes.-ioii, but sonietiines a 
 President has chosen a subject whicli he assumed would be of interest 
 to tlie members of the Society, and at the same time a record of thi! 
 progress of some great work, wliich he considered lie was in somo 
 special degree qualified to speak of; so instend of giving a general 
 sketch of professioniil progress during the past year, I hav(! decided to 
 give ii review of wliat the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has 
 done since 1886, in tiic way of rc-constructiou. 
 
 You are all aware that the Canadian Pacific llailway Company took 
 a contract from the Goveniment on 21st Oct., 1880, to complete the 
 IJailway to the Pacific Const in ten years, and that the work was pushel 
 on witli such eneigy that trains pa.ssed from tide watir to tide water 
 in November, 1885. In carrying out this work through an almost 
 inaccessible wilderness, it was decided to construct a large amount 
 of temporary work, which would carry the traffic safely for some years, 
 and at the same time bo of material use in the economical construction 
 of the permanent works. Tliis method of carrying out the work 
 eniibled the Company to open the line five years earlier than it could 
 otherwise have done; it saved a large amount of money in first cost 
 and iu interest, it will save a large sum in ultimate cost, and it enabled 
 the Company to earn $20,000,000 in the year fixed for the completion 
 of the contract. 
 
 The temporary work put in the roadbed consisted principally of 
 long and high wooden trestles to cross large ravines, small pile trestles 
 to cross small streams, and wooden bridges with the substructure of 
 piles or wooden cribs, and super-structure of wooden trusses with spans 
 varying from 30 feet to 180 feet in length to cross important streams 
 and large rivers . 
 
President's Address, 
 
 FILLING TRKSTLES. 
 
 On the Eastern Division between Cartior ami Nepigou, and on the 
 Western Division between Fort VViiliaiu and Winnipeg, wiiere square 
 timber could not readily bo obtained, round timber cut in the nearest 
 valley along the Hue was used, and the work was of a more temporary 
 character than where good timber was obtainable, consequently the 
 work of replacing it was commenced at an enrly date, and this was 
 especially tiie case when the structures were long and high and re- 
 quired two or three years to fill. The Big Pic trestle on the Eastern 
 Division 800 miles west of Montreal, which was 1300 feet in length 
 and 70 feet high at the western end, and required nearly three seasons 
 to fill, contained 172,123 yards. To have tilled this trestle would have 
 taken five seasons, if done by the ordinary hand dump car method, 
 and would have cost notices than $94,(i68, whereas the work only cost 
 $30,770, or IGJ cents per cubic yard, leaving out the cost of the trestle, 
 a saving on that trestle alone of §57,^98, lesidcs allowing the line to bo 
 opened five years earlier. On this same Division another large trestle, 
 No. 799, 800 miles west of Montreal, was commenced in 1890 and 
 finished in 1893, requiring 100,000 cubic yards. This was filled at a 
 cost of $15,000, or 15 cents per cubic yard. At the time of construc- 
 tion it could have been filled only by borrowing rock at a cost of 8159,- 
 600, or $2.85 per cubic yard. There have been filled on this Division 
 535 trestles, having a length of 86,13S ft., and requiring -1,095,012 yards 
 of material to fill them, on which, not counting interest saved on capital, 
 there has been saved to the Company at least one dollar per cubic yard, 
 or $4,095,012, by putting in temporary structures and making banks 
 by train with gravel and saud instead, or rock, or even earth from long 
 haul cuts by horse cars. 
 
 Where trestles have been built over good solid ground or rock, not 
 under water, the filling has been easily done; but in some places, with 
 bad foundations, this filling has been attended with serious difficulties, 
 and in certain cases on the Government sections, the risk of stopping 
 traffic was so great that it was considered advisable to change the loca- 
 , tion of the line. In many instances a certain amount of risk had to 
 be run, and was provided against in the way of having timber on hand 
 ready to repair the track, so as to avoid an interruption to the traffic ; 
 and so successfully has this been done, that in no case has traffic been 
 interrupted for more than a few hours at any one time. In one case 
 at structure No. 740 on the north shore of Lake Superior 820 miles 
 
President's Address. 3 
 
 west of Montreal, a trestle SCO feet Ion;? and 40 feet lilgl, had a cul- 
 vert built under it, and was nearly filed when the central portion dropped 
 down about 14 feet, carrying the centre of the culvert down, and 
 leaving the outer portion of the slopes and the ends of the culvert in 
 position. This culvert and cmbankmenl were built on a coarse gravel 
 ioundiition, under which there must have been a hollow space, "below 
 the depth to which the piles had been driven, covered with a crust that 
 was thiek enough to carry the trestle and its load, but not strong 
 enough to support the gravel bank. 
 
 On the Western Division between Fort Williiiui and Winnipeg, in 
 •i arcat number of places the trestles were built through lakes, the 
 water being of various depths over soft black peaty material, often from 
 fifty to seventy feet deep on a bed of sloping rock. In other cases the 
 same character of bottom would be found, but without the slopin- 
 rock. In the case of the sloping rock when the trestle was nearly 
 filled, the whole bank has slipped bodily down the slope into the lake. 
 In other cases when tlie material was nearly up to the level of the track] 
 and before the banks had run out to the proper slope, the lower 
 portion would slide out, carrying with it the full width of the made 
 bank at the lop, see Plate IV, the bank sometimescarrying with it a 
 great part of the trestle, and always very much distorting the align- 
 ment, so that new piles had to be driven or put in placo^in ordei^to 
 maintain the tniffic. Another form of trestle that was met with was 
 when deep lakes had to be crossed, where, from the nature of the rock 
 on which the trestle stood, it would be dangerous to run the risk of 
 the filling sliding down a steep slope, and carrying (he trestle with it. 
 Here there was nothing to do but divert the track, and in some in- 
 stances it was found that a better and cheaper line was close at hand 
 which avoided the fill altogether. Li other cases it seemed that the 
 deepest portion of the lake had been chosen, and that by judicious 
 change of location enough rock could be obtained on a better line to 
 fill the shallower crossing of the lake. In other places the Govei nmcnt 
 had put quantities of cross-logging, where there was no possibility of 
 the logging supporting the bank that was to go in, and when earth was 
 put upon It, the logs would sink in the centre, and cause the ends to 
 bend upwards, and so allow the bottom to assume a curved form which 
 would slide down on the sloping rock. A great deal of expense had 
 been gone to by the Government in putting in cross-loggin- under 
 banks as much as fifty feet high, with soft bottoms through which it 
 would settle, some of which the Company removed before attcmpti^ ' to 
 
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 make the cmbankmcDt. la sucli cases cross-lo<;^in^ is worse tlinn 
 useless, as it cannot support the bank, and sinks at the centre, allow- 
 ing the outer ends to turn up, so us to form a blunt edge as it were, 
 which pushes out the soft material unilorncatli to each side. 
 
 Cross logginj^ is only of uso when n low bank is to be carrifd on top 
 of soft materiMl, which is not fjuito iible to sustain the load. Then the 
 cross-lofjging will broaden the base and furnish a lighter material to 
 reach the desired height ; but when tlie bottom is so soft that the bank 
 will go through it to a solid bottom, then the crn>s-log}iitig is a serious 
 disadvantage to the work, as it increases the tcndonny of tlu' bank to 
 slide out sideways. In some cases where the risks of filling were so 
 many, and the danger of interruptiim to the tniffic so serious, there 
 being no chance to put in a temporary truck witiiout great dcluy, di- 
 versions were made. In all such cases sh.illower crossinj^s were 
 found, and the rock from the excavation made the fills. Of course 
 the cost was greater than if a proper location had been made at first, 
 but a good line lias now been obtained, and one from which no 
 further trouble or expense can arise. A little more care in locating 
 the original line would have avoided the necessity for these changes. 
 This emphasizes the necessity for greater care in the location of 
 railways. No class of Engineering is more neglected than location. 
 Any Engineer who can run a transit is often thought good enough 
 to locate a line ; but after the line is built, the mistakes are found, bad 
 bottoms as just described are discovered, and shiirp curves and steep 
 grades are put in the line that might easily have been avoided, and, as 
 a consequence, either the line has to be worked at heavy ex|.ense, or 
 large sums of money have to be expended to build the line over, so that 
 greater loads can be hauled and the line more economically worked. 
 
 The filling of some of the trestles on the section between Fort Wil- 
 liam and Winnipeg required the utmost care ai'id the strictest super- 
 vision so as to avoid any serious interruption to the traflSc. At trestle 
 No. 226a, east of Barclay Station, 1,248 miles west of Montreal, 
 sawdust was satisfactorily used for filling under the following circum- 
 stances. A pile trestle 335 ft. long and 8 ft. in height across a soft 
 spot in a swamp between two clay hills required filling, and had the 
 bottom been able to hold up the bank, only 2,880 cubic yards would 
 have been required to make the embankment. Soundings were taken 
 through black muck and soft clay for 60 feet without finding a hard 
 bottom. Filling was commenced on the 30th July, 1891, and when 
 864 cars or 6,912 cubic yards had been put in, the track dropped on the 
 
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 8t!i Aunii>t about four feet over the whole length of the trestle. The 
 track WHS raised and the fillinj; was carried on till the 31st October, at 
 which diito 0,825 car loads hiid been put in, equal to 54,600 cubic yards, 
 or 51,720 cul»io yards inDie thnn was re(|uired to fill from the surface 
 to subgrade. By this time the b:mks at both ends of the trestle had 
 broken through, or ntherhad been carried down by the scttlenicMt that 
 took place under the trestle, and tl;e filling sank faster than it could 
 be put in. The irauk was then bulow grade for a distance of eight 
 hundred feet, and eleven feet below subgrade at the lowest place. This 
 settlement took place by sudden drops of from six to seven feet, but was 
 kept passable by tutting down the track on cieh side of the lowest 
 point ; — as the bank never fell more than 11 ft. below grade, which was 
 the level of the water in the ni;irsh ; — and by filling in with sawdust, so 
 as to enable the heavy wheat traffic to be carried over without assis* 
 tance from a pusiier. The track was raised to within six feet of grade, 
 and the approaches cut down so as to make two per cent, grades, over 
 which the ordinary traffic passed without difficulty. During the winter 
 the sawdust filling gave no trouble, so in the spring it was decided 
 to complete the bank to within a foot of the required height, and to cover 
 it with a foot of gravel. The sawdust proved so satisfactory that it was 
 decided to raise it three feet higher than the original trestle, in order 
 to improve the grade at this point, which is near tho east end of Bar- 
 clay siding. The bank as filled has not shown any appreciable settle- 
 ment and has remained in perfect order. 
 
 Bridge No. 169, 1,250 miles from Montreal, was a pile trestle 596 
 feet in length and nine feet high, built across a swamp, where sound- 
 ings, or rather borings, were taken for sixty feet in depth without find- 
 ing hard bottom. Previous experience in similar placos showed that 
 great oxpen.se would be entailed in attempting to fill this place with 
 gravel, and that serious interruptions to traffic might be expected. 
 Sawdust having been used with success on No. 226a above mentioned 
 it was decided to try filling this trestle altogether with sawdust, and to 
 spread the weight out as much as possible by using flat slopes of 3 to 1 . 
 The sawdust was brought from Keewatin in box cars, containinf 45 
 «ubic yards, by freight trains each day, as the cars w'. filled by shoots 
 leading from the mills and left on siding near by to be dumped by specia 
 work gang sent out when siding was filled. The time required to fill 
 the trestle was about three months. The sawdust was covered with a 
 foot of ballast, and has remained in perfect condition, except 75 feet of 
 the track, which required lifting and tamping for the first three monthe 
 
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 probably due to the I'aot tliat the siiwJust was thrown in looaoly arnl 
 not packe 1 as at No. 226a. It has sinco shown no sii^as of settlemant 
 and h.-i8 given good eatisfaotion. The quantity of sawdust used was 
 very little in excess of the quantity calculated from the oro^s section, 
 showing that sawdust shrinks less than earth for a bank of thosamj 
 dimensions, and it tuny bo interesting to know that the sawdust bank 
 yields less under a passing train than the trostl'^, and has loss spring 
 in it than a muck bank built over a swamp of the sauio character. 
 
 Trestle No. 177 across a bay of Eagle Lake was 634 feet in lengli 
 and 23 feet above the surface of the water, built with frame bents on 
 piles which were driven tlirough very soft mud and clay overlying rock 
 at deptli varying from 20 feet to 40 feet. The rock sloped to t\u'. north 
 at the west end and to the soutli at the east. A thick mattress of logs 
 was, in the original construction by the Government, put in between the 
 piles, or the piles were driven between them for the purpose of assisting 
 to support the b;ink and to stififeii the piles, standing as they were in such 
 very soft mud. Fearing that the mattress, which extended about fifty 
 feet on each side of the trestle, in settling at tho centre and turning up 
 nt the ends, would slide on the bottom and so wreck the trestle, it w is 
 decided to cut, from the ice during the winter, the mattress ju'^t outsi ! 
 the piles, as the simplest method of avoiding the d inger likely to ai i.>o 
 from the presence of the cross logging, on such a very soft bottom. Fill- 
 ing was commenced on 8th August, 1892, was carried on up to t!>o 
 27th of the same month, up to which time 1,284 car loads liad b • ii 
 put in, nearly all of which bad been hauled by horses and .scrapers to tiio 
 edge of the cross logging left between the piles, and dumped over the ends 
 of it so as to form two banks, or walls, outside of the trestle, and to make 
 as much as possible of the bank, with the least interference with tho tres- 
 tle. In spite of this precaution the trestle sank two feet on the last men 
 tioned date, and went out to the south about four feet, and continued sink- 
 ing and going out of line steadily till, on the 29th September, when 4,674 
 carsor 37,392 cubic yards had boon put in and hauled out by horses and 
 scrapers, the bridge had settled 18 feet and was 1 2 feet out of line. Ic had 
 been kept passable all this time by blocking up over the caps, as shown on 
 Plan No. IV. Piles were then driven to the northward on the old line and 
 the track placed in its original position. Filling was commenced again 
 on the 3rd October, and continued to the 23rd, at which date 7, "JO I cars 
 had been put in, and the new piles wore as much out of line and had sunk 
 as much as the old bridge had on the 29th September, and had of course 
 during this time to be kept blocked up to keep the bridge open for the 
 
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 licavy wlieat traffic. Filling was now stopped for the season, and now 
 piles were again driven and the track moved over into lino. What 
 remained of the old bridge was now 38 feet out of lino. During the 
 winter and up to the 2nd May, no more than two foot of settlement 
 took pliice. Filling was recommoacod on the 2nd May, and by the 9th 
 May, 866 oars had been put in, when at 5 p.m. tlie bridirc sank an aver- 
 age of 8 feet over 28 bents. At 1 p.m. on Mfiy 10th the track was pas- 
 sable and passenger train No. 2 crossed on time. On lOth and I Ith of 
 May, 305 cars wore put in, and at p.m. on the 11th the bridge .^^ank 
 an average of 8 feet over 18 bents, and though it rained heavily all 
 night the track was passable at 9 a.m. the next morning. 
 
 On May 16th, when 371 more cars had been put in, tlio trestle again 
 sank about S ft. over the -iiune 18 bents, and wont out of line 10 ft. 
 to the south ; but the track w.; Mocked up, and made passable by one 
 o'clock on the morning of the IVtli, and all trains passed on time. Be- 
 tween May 17th and 20th, 544 more cars, or 4,352 cubic yds., wcruput 
 in, when the trestle sank '■ an about 8 ft. ,vor the same 18 boufn at one 
 o'clock p.m.; track w;^s, however, pasauolo at 8 p.m. on the same day. 
 
 At 5 p.m. on May 23rd, wheu 112 more cars, or 3,536 cubic yds., 
 had been put in, the trestle sank about 7 ft. over the same 18 bents, 
 and went out 10 ft, to the south • but by 11 p.m. on tlie .same day it 
 was ready to pass trains, requiring .something loss than one hour to 
 raise it each foot over the 240 ft. Three hundred and seventy-four 
 more oars had been put in up to 5 p.m. of the 25th of May, when the 
 trestle sank for thesi.xtli time seven feetover the same 18 bents, causin" 
 a stoppage of the line at this point for seven liours. On 27th Alay, after 
 284 more cars, or 2,272 cubic yds., had been put in, this bank was 
 within six feet of the grade, and by cutting down the approaches it 
 was possible to lay the track on tiie filling. This was done and the 
 filling stopped, so as to allow the bank to set and solidify. Work com- 
 menced again on the 21st of August, and between that date and the 
 9th of September, 788 cars were unloaded in small quantities at a 
 time, and the bank brought up to grade 18 ft. wide at base of rail. 
 
 Between 9th September, 1893, and 31st July, 1894, the ombauk- 
 ment settled about 2J ft. at the lowest point. On the latter date y6 
 cars were unloaded, which brought the track up to grade and bank 16 
 ft. wide at base of rail. Since that date no appreciable settlement has 
 taken place. 
 
 The filling of the trestle has been given in considerable detail in order 
 to give a clear idea of the difficulties that are encountered in filling on 
 
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 President's Address. 
 
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 a bad bottom and sloping foundation, and to show whatc:in be done in 
 the way of keeping sucii a structure p;issub'o in the fuce of such diffi- 
 culties, caused by the sudden sliding out into the lake of the original 
 bottom of clay and mud overlying the hard bottom, and Ciirrving with 
 it the filling which rested upon it. The track s»nk in the autumn of 
 1892, 40 ft., and iu May, 1893, 52 ft., besides smalle ■ settlements tliat 
 were going on all the time, and yet traffic was maintained, ihe greatest 
 detention to any passenger train being eight hours, when the track sank 
 at 6 p ni. during a heavy rain, and was roudy to pass tiic train at 9 
 
 a.m. next morning. 
 
 The estimated quantity of filling required for the trestle was 100,000 
 cubic yds. The total quantity put in was 9t> ,000 yds., which cost 
 $41,637,00. 
 
 Wlien the foundations are good, the filling of a large trestle is at- 
 tended with little or no risk. Settlements of trestles on app irently 
 good foundatitins, however, occur, which it is difficult to account for, 
 such as that at Big Pic, where, after the trestle had been filled some 
 time, the bank and trestle subsided six feet in one night, and, as far as 
 could be seen, no disturbance of tlie surrounding ground took place, 
 nor has any further i-ettlement taken place in the pa«t five years. 
 
 Between Winnipeg and Donald, a distance of 1,024 miles, tiicr.; are 
 not many large trestles ; a few of the large ones west of the summit of 
 the Rockies have been filled, the policy adopted being to fill long, shal- 
 low ones, and so to reduce the length of wooden floors as much as pos- 
 sible with the least amount of money, except in certain cases where 
 transfers could not be made or diversions readily built. West of ihe 
 Summit most of the trestles filled were situated on sides of hills, anil re- 
 quired retaining walls to hold the banks and prevent the slopes from 
 running down into the Kicking Horse River. 
 
 From S;ivoiias to Port Moody, a distance of 213 miles, built by the 
 Government, a large amount of work lias been done, 27,74(! ft. of 
 trestles having been filled. In all cases the streams are carried through 
 the banks in stone arches or box culverts, and where grasshopper tres- 
 tles were built and no drainage requireil, and there was no room to ex- 
 tend the slopes on account of the steepness of the banks, stone retaining 
 walls were constructed and generally filled in behind with stone debris. 
 
 In many ca-ses the sites of the trestles were cliangcd and thrown into 
 the banks, so as to take out curves and at the same time enable the fill- 
 ing to be made without building expensive retaining walls. This has 
 been carefully studied and economically carried out, the line having 
 
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 been thrown in just enough to furnisli filling for the trestles, and thus 
 material was obtained close at hand, and the quantity required was 
 reduced by Ihrowinp; the fills up the hillside and placing more of th? 
 tiack on solid around. 
 
 PNEUMATIC DUMP CARS. 
 
 The material used in fiUina; trestles on tho E;i8tein ami Western 
 Divisions was loaded with steam shovels on flat ears, and unloaded by 
 means of the ordinary ballast plow, drnwn over the length of the train 
 by the locomotive. On the Pacific Division a large portion of the work 
 was done in the same manner. Whore the filling was on side hill, a 
 one-.sided or side hill plow was used, and on straight track worked 
 fairly well, but on sharp curves it caused a great deal of delay, and 
 very niatcrially inci eased tlie coj-t of the filling. In order to overcome 
 this, all the various dump cars in use were examined in the latter part 
 of 1891, and inquiries made from the principal manufacturers of cars 
 and the leading Eailway Companies and contractors in the United 
 States, when it was fouud that tlierc was not in use in any place a 
 dump car that would an.'-wer tho purpose, viz., one that could be unloaded 
 without sending men along the track over the high trestles to do the 
 work, which would have been slow and dangerous, and in order to avoid 
 this, the question of operaiing dump cars by power, obtained from tlie 
 locomotive, using either steam or compressed air, was t' en considered, 
 when it was found that a plan (or using conipressrd a'r had been 
 patented in the United States, but had i ot been put into use. From 
 this design as a basis, and after a number of important changes had been 
 made on it in the Canadian Pacific Car Department, fifty cars were 
 built in the Company's Car Siiops in the Spring of 1802, and sent to 
 the Pacific Division where they gave the most complete satisfaction ; 
 trains of twenty cars heing njjul.irly unloaded, and brought back into 
 position ready to return to put in half a minute, which, uf course, very 
 materially reduced the cost of the filling. This, it is believed, is tho 
 first instance where dump cars on Railway Works have been unloaded 
 by means of compressed aii-. 
 
 HYDRAULIC FILLING. 
 
 Two large embankments, one containing 66,000 yds. and the other 
 144,000 yds., have been made by hydraulic gravel from adjoining 
 hills, The first embankment was filled at a cost of $5,839.51, of 
 which amount $2,862,43 was for labour, and the balance, $2,977.08, 
 
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 was for plaui and material U8ed in boxes, etc. The iron pipes, monitors 
 and part of the material in the boxes can be used again, and in fact 
 are now in use at the second embankment, so it was considered fair to 
 charge only 20 par cent, of the plant against the cost of filling, which 
 reduced the total cost to $4,715.33, or 7.15 cents per cubic yard. 
 
 The second embankment is now being successfully made. The water 
 is taken from the stream, which runs down the valley that has to be 
 filled, at a point about 584 feet up the hill side, and 353 ft. above 
 grade, or at an elevation of 125 ft. above the pit from which the gra- 
 vel is taken for filling the ravine. The water is carried in a 15 inch 
 pipe to a giant or monitor, such as is used in hydraulic mining. This 
 monitor is generally worked with a five-inch nozzle, and thiows a power- 
 ful stream against tlio gravel bank, washing the gravel and boulderv^ 
 down into a flume which has a grade of from 11.5 feet to 25 feet per 
 100 feet. This stream will carry down on to the dump 750 cubic yds. in 
 10 hours. One man is required to woik the monitor, another is at head of 
 sluice, and two along sluice to start and keep moving boulders thiitcan 
 pass down the flume, but are liable to lodge on a flat side, and three men 
 are required to direct the material as it comes from the flume and to 
 put in brush at the outer edges, so as to prevent the water from cutting 
 channels in the slopes. Old sleepers taken out oC track have been used 
 for this purpose most successfully, by simply placing them on the outer 
 edges of tlie bunk, and when the gravel is raised up to the top of them , 
 a new row is laid down ontlie lines of the slopes.and so on, new lines of 
 ties being put in for each six inch rise of the bank. There are a num- 
 ber of places on the line where this method of filling is to be adopted. 
 
 RETAINING WALLS. 
 
 Large numbers of retaining walls have been built along the 
 1^'raser and Thompson Rivers at grndc to replace the grasshopper tres- 
 tles, and long structures of crib wharfing put in by the Government. 
 Some of these walls are 100 ft. in height, and have in all oases been 
 built of concrete mixed with large stones, generally found at or near 
 the site of the wall. This work has been done in the most econotnical 
 manner possible, by intelligent labourers, specially instructed .-is to 
 how such work .should be built. When these walls were commenced, 
 Portland cement cost on the Pacific Coast $5.60 per barrel of 400 lbs. 
 It was therefore desirable to use as little of it as possible, and yet enough 
 of it had to be used to cement the stones in the most thorough manner. 
 Large angular stones, as they came i'rom the quarry, or as they were 
 
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 picked up along the track, were first laid down on tboir largest beds on 
 the foundation ; cement mortar, three of sand to one of cement, was then 
 put into the bottom of the angular spaces, and into this mortar sirall 
 angular stones taken from rock slides were mixed, and into this mixture 
 larger angular stones were carefully rammed, the angular point down- 
 ward, so that they nearly touched the first largo stones laid ; when the 
 large spaces were filled and the course levelled off, grout was poured 
 on to fill any vacant spaces tmd to more thoroughly cement the 
 whole mass togetiier. This method required less tlian one-half the 
 cement used by ordinury masons in building rubble masonry, and as it 
 was done by labourers, tliere was tlio large saving in the labour as well 
 as in the cement, and the work is certainly very much better than the 
 average rubble built by masons. When there was room to build retain- 
 ing walls at the bottom of the slopes, and when they could be built 
 with a batter of as much as 1 to 4, dry masonry was used. 
 
 WATERWAYS —STONE. 
 
 At most of the fills it has been necessary to provide waterways in 
 the form of bridges, stone arches, stone box culverts or codar box 
 culverts, the exception being where tunnels were made in rock points 
 at one side of the fill. This has been found economical, and has been 
 carried out wherever possible, the cost of a tunnel .six feet by eight feet 
 being about $9.00 per lineal foot. 
 
 Where the line is carried on side hill ground, over a deep valley, 
 with a stream at the bottom, the stream, instead of being allowed to follow 
 its natural course dovvn the valley, and to pass under a bank requiring a 
 culvert, say 200 ft. in length ; has been tapped at an elevation a little 
 above the rail level, and the water carried along the side of the valley 
 in a ditch and over the bank, just under the rails. In many cases 
 this method has proved very satisfactory, and of course economical, 
 a culvert 20 feet long, of light construction, on a good foundation, 
 taking the place of ona 200 feet in length, of heavy construction and 
 probably on a soft foundation. 
 
 Where waterways under heavy banks iiave had to be provided, and 
 where covers were easily obtained, three feet by four feet box culverts 
 have been built, with masonry constructed as already described for 
 retaining walls, great care being taken to use the be.st cement and to 
 fill all spaces between the stones. Where a three feet by four feet box 
 culvert was not quite large enough to carry tlie water, or where covers 
 were not easily obtained, small arches have been used, the aroh ring 
 
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 being built of rubble laid in coment, Thes e nrchcs in most cnses have 
 cost lesa than box culverts, as the stone for the entire nrch, except 
 coping and outer ring of arch, was generally found either on the site 
 or at the end of an adjoining rock cut, whereas the covers for the box 
 culverts would have had to be specially quarried, and often hauled long 
 distances, which very materially increased the cost of the culvert, and 
 where this was the case, arches were always adopted. 
 
 In places where a waterway of from 20 feet to 30 feet in width wa** 
 required, arches have been adopted in preference to short iron spans of 
 any kind, when the cost was not much in excess of the spans. Arches 
 have always been found to be cheaper, where provision was made for 
 double track. Semi-circular arches have been found to be much more 
 expensive than flat arches, as the wings to catch the slopes for flat 
 arches are very much smaller, and as the width of water-way is what is 
 wanted in most cases, many flat arches have been built. For a 14 I'eet 
 arch under a 46 feet bank for instance, the quantities are as follows : for 
 single track flat arch 639 yards, and semi circular arch 805 cubic 
 yards, for double track flat arch 697 cubic yards, semi-circular arch 
 897 cubic yards, the distance from bottom of stream to springing being 
 the same in both cases, as also the depth of foundation. Semi- 
 circular arches on high walls have been used under the heavy fills in 
 the deep valleys that run into the Fraser, as the streams in these valleys 
 at times carry down timber debris, which is liable to jam at the entrance 
 of the culvert ; and as the streams have rapid falls, a culvert might 
 soon be flooded up to its top, and for this reason culverts are built with 
 high waterways, wherever it is considered safe to put in an arch. 
 Oreat care is required in fixing the dimensions of water ways in the 
 mountains, for even after years of study of a stream, and when it is 
 thought that it has been seen under all conditions of flood, something 
 happens to upset all former experience and conclusions. A slide often 
 takes place up in the mountains, which may turn two streams into one, 
 and send down with that one a large amount of timber debris, which 
 formerly, but to a lesser extent, came down some other stream, and 
 afterwards the small stream becomes the larger one, and vice versn. 
 
 CEDAR CULVERTS. 
 
 There are many places oh the line where stone structures for water, 
 ways would have been expensive on account of the great distance 
 which the stone would have to be hauled, and in other places, founda* 
 tions for stone structures would have been very expensive, and it be- 
 
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 came necessary to substitute something else. Iron pipes were expen- 
 sive, and required a very long haul. Earthenware pipes wcro cheaper, 
 but also required the long haul, and in some cases were found to be 
 aifectcd by the frost. Wooden culverts built of cedar timber, of which 
 we found large quantities along the line, seemed to meet the require- 
 ments : 1 ® , the timber is cheap ; 2 ^ , theru was in all cases a very 
 mucli shorter haul than that required fi)r stone, iron or carthenwure ; 
 3 ° , it required a much h ss solid or uniform foundation ; a isettlement 
 of a ffW inches more at one point than another did it no harm, and 
 cracks that would have seriously injured stone, iron or c aithinwaro 
 from such a settlement did not arise in cedar timber, its elasticity per- 
 mitting considerable settlement without any injury to tiic structure. 
 As to its permanency, there is no question but that cedar will last at 
 least fifty years, quite as long as much of the stone that is found on 
 many railways. There is a cedar fence on the Aylmcr Eoad, between 
 Ottawa and Aylmor, that in 1876 was fifty years old, which was then 
 being tiiken down to straiuhten it up, the owner of which said that he 
 would take ofiF the bark and rebuild the fence, when he considered it 
 would be good for another fifty years. 
 
 A cedar log is to be seen in the Stanley Park at Vancouver, British 
 Columbia, in a good slate of preservation, on which a tree of 10 feetU 
 inches in circumference has grown with one fork of the ro» ts on one side 
 of the tree andoie fork on the other side. Similar trees to the one grow, 
 iiig on the cedar in the stme place have 168 rings, showing them to be 
 168 years old. There is a hollow cedar log in the same Park 4 feet 6 
 inches in diameter, tie shell being six inches thick, which is quite sound. 
 Over this log is growing a spruce tree, which measures 13 feet 6 inches 
 in circumference at 8 feet above the log, and at 14 fict above the 
 log it is 12 feet in circumference, which is 192 years old. From this 
 evidence of the lasting quality of cedar indifiiercnt situations, it is fair 
 to assume that cedar culverts will laft at least 50 years, and that they 
 may be considered permanent work; for the saving in interest on the 
 extra cost of iron or stone will renew these structures if necessary 
 much sooner than at the end of fifty years. Cedar culverts have been 
 put in where the banks arc twenty feet and under an 1 where bad 
 foundations or excessive haul rendered the use of stone, iron or earthen- 
 ware too expensive in comparison with ccdir at the point in question. 
 These culverts, generally three feet by three feet inside measurement 
 are made of 10 inches by 10 inches square timber, and in some oases 
 double or treble, side by side. The timbers arc securely treenailed 
 
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 and bolted, and upright timbers are fusteDod to the outside at intervals 
 of about four feet, so as to prevent the water from following along the 
 outside of the walls, and so endangering the structure. See Plan No. 
 IV. 
 
 BRIDQES. 
 
 The great number of long high trestles requiring waterways from 
 80 feet to 100 feet in width, with the rail 80 feet to 100 feet 
 above bed of stream, led to the adoption of the following structure, 
 which is considered to be that which most satisfactorily fills the require- 
 ments of the case : three spans of one hund red feet, with two piers, 
 and the ends of the outer spans standing on cedar cribs founded on piles. 
 By this plan we get a good, safe, substantial stnicture at a present cost 
 of the piles and cedur cribs, against the two short stone abutments, 
 effecting a saving of $14,000 for 80 feet height. By the time the cribs 
 and piles require renewing, the bank will have settled, so that masonry 
 can be built upon it instead of through it ; and leaving the question of 
 interest aside, there is a saving of 1200 yards of masonry, or $13,500 
 at each bridge, and the structure is equally as good for all practical 
 purposes, and will require no more looking after than if it had all been 
 built in stone, as an inspection is made of all structures at least once 
 every month. See SkowWash River, Plate IV 
 
 In rebuilding structures over that portion of the Eastern Division 
 -lying between Carleton Junction and SuJbury, a distance of 295 miles, 
 and on the Western Division between Fort William and Winnipeg, a 
 distance of 428 miles, masonry has been built for double track, and of 
 course this consideration materially changes the character of the struc- 
 tures that iiave been adopted. Stone arches have been more frequently 
 used here than on the single track sections, on account of their economy 
 over small truss spans. On single track, where the cost of truss and 
 arch was nearly the same, on double track, the arch would be very 
 much cheaper, as the dilference between a 25 feet arch, single and double 
 track, say in 30 feet bank, is only 16 per cent., whereas for the same 
 span of iron on masonry abutments the excess is never less than 45 per 
 cent. For a 25 feet arch in 20 feet bank, the difference between single 
 and double track is only 32 per cent., whereas for the most economical 
 girder the excess of double track over single is never less than 80 per 
 cent. The arch requiring only 13 feet of additional length of barrel, 
 or centre portion of the arch, whereas the truss requires an additional 
 span and 47 per cent, more masonry. This is, however, offset by the 
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 the truss aud some of the additional tuiisonry required for it may bo 
 postponed till actually required, but the economy of the arch is so 
 great that it has been put in wherever possible. 
 
 An important part of the reconstruction has been the replacing of 
 wooden bridges with structures of stone and steel. Wooden bridges 
 have been carried over as long as they could be rendered absolutely safe. 
 In most cases where a bridge showed the slightest sign of weakness, or 
 wlien it was thought from its age that it might be becoming weak, it 
 was strengthened by putting pile bents under the second panel point 
 from the end, thus reducing a hundred "foot span to one of 60 feet, 
 and of course strengthening it in like proportion. The structure was 
 tlicn carefully watched, and renewal? commenced, so as to have the 
 new bridge in before the old one was worn out. 
 
 In renewing the work on tl>e old sections of the line, as, for instance, 
 between Quebec and Montreal, it was found that considerable economy 
 could bo effected by the use of short spans, without at all interfering 
 with the waterway or with the passage of ice, timber, etc. 
 
 The Jacques Cartier bridge, as originally built by the Quebec 
 Government, had one 170 feet span and one 140 feet span on masonry 
 abutments and pier. To rebuild these spans in steel would have cost 
 $25,629. By adopting two 85 feet spans and two of 74 feet the cost 
 was only $21,105.39. This of course included additional masonry 
 pier.«, and also the diversion of a mill-race, which was under one of 
 the spans, where it was required to build the pier. Tiie short plate 
 girder spans require much less care and inspection than the longer 
 spans, and are mueli cheaper to maintain. See Plan No. I. 
 
 At Port Neiif the old bridge was built witbonc 80 feet span over the 
 stream and two side spans of 150 feet. One of these large spans was 
 adopted on account of the bad character of the foundation, but it was 
 found economical to put in two 75 feet spans in the place of each of the 
 150 feet spans, and to carry the bad foundation down to the hard bot- 
 tom, and drain the surrounding ground, as the renewal of the original 
 spans would have cost $25,600.98, and the work was done for $22,169,- 
 37, and a better structure obtained. See Plan I. 
 
 At Arnprior, which is on the section built by the old Canada Cen- 
 tral Railway, and as mentioned above — being between Carleton Junction 
 and Sudbury — has all new structures built for double track, two old 
 combination trusses of 150 feet required renewing. The centre pier on 
 wooden crib was in 39 feet of water, and was continually settling, so 
 that a new pier was required. It was found that to build a new pier 
 
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 for double track nnd single trnek spatiH, the cost would be $36,149.15^ 
 for the bridge complete with double trnek spans $60,978.95, and that 
 by putting in two new double track piers .nnd three 100 feet spuns for 
 single track, the cost would be only $32,093.61, and with the bridge 
 complete for double track $45,687.20. The abutments were built in 
 the early days of Railways, when economy was not very much cou- 
 sidered ; tliey wore 21 feet wide between tlie parapet walls, which were 
 four feet thick, so thiit by roniovini^ these walls back to the ballast 
 wall, wc obtained an !ibutn)cnt 29 feet in width, wide enough for a 
 double track bridge. 
 
 The piers of this bridge were put in by sinking bottomless caissons 
 through the water and the mud, which overlaid the rock to a 
 depth of 39 feet. This mud, which was three feet thick, wiis removed 
 by divers, and concrete to a depth of 20 feet was de|iosited inside the 
 cai.«soii through the water. When the concrete was all in, the water 
 was pumped out and masonry built on top of it. Each pier contained 
 257 yards of masonry, and cost $2,661.50, or $9.50 per cubic yard. 
 The excavation in the caissons under water cost $372, or $6 per 
 yard. See Plan No. I. 
 
 The Gull River bridge on the double track section between Foit 
 William ami Winnipeg, as built originally in 1880 by the Government, 
 was composed of one span of 100 feet, two spans of 80 feet, and 
 eighty-dvo feet of trestle. The cost of replacing those three spans in 
 1891 in masonry and steel, that is, witli masonry complete for double 
 track, and steel for single track, would have been $41,600, and complete 
 for double track, $55,800 ; but by using one span of 130 feet with 
 stone arch abutments of thirty feet span, the cost was $33,166, and to 
 complete for double track the cost will be $41,260. The base of rail 
 on this bridge is 23 I'eet above low water. The bed of the river is 
 composed of fine sand, and the masonry was founded on piles, capped 
 with timber below lowest water. Sec Plan T. 
 
 The Stony Creek bridge on the Pacific Division, near the summit of 
 the Selkirks, built in 1885 over a chasm 300 feet deep, has been re- 
 placed by a steel arch of 336 feet span. The wooden structure was 
 composed of continuous Howe trusses of 33 feet, 161 feet, 172 feet, 
 and 86 feet, supported on wooden trestle towei's, and would have been 
 serviceable for some time longer, as the timber, which was Douglas fir, 
 was in good condition ; but the Management, in view of the difiiculty 
 of replacing such a structure in case of its being burnt, and of transfer- 
 ring the traffic over such a chasm, decided to rebuild it in steel ia 
 
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 1893, and fortunately this was done before the firo of 1894, which 
 Hwcpt over the western end of this structure and under it, destroying 
 everything in its way that would burn. The walls of this ravine 
 consist of decomposed mica schist, broken by numerous veins of quartz, 
 upon which a good foundation could not be obtained or made. It was 
 therefore decided to put in a span of 336 feet in the shape of a three- 
 hinged arch, with one span of 60 feet at the west end and one span 
 of 80 feet at the cast end, and to build this arch outside of the old 
 structure, it being impossible to improve the crossing by any chango 
 of location. Very inexpensive foundations were required with this 
 arrangement, and by placing the trusses of the arch outside of tho 
 girder, and carefully fitting tho floor bciims to the old spans, it was 
 possible to place the arch in position without cutting out rods or braces 
 to such an extent as to weaken the old trusses or interfere with tho 
 traffic. The arch Wiis erected on a light fnisc work, and by using six 
 inch pins at tho connections with 12 inch covers or thimbles, on which 
 the chords bore, iis shown on Plan No. Ill, the connections were made 
 very readily, no field riveting being required at tlie connections, except 
 on the lateral bracing wlii.h covers the joints at top and bottom. The 
 estimate based upon the Company's Standard Specifications for a 380 
 teet span and one span of 80 feet was $82,821, and for a 336 feet arch, 
 onj £0 feet and ono 60 feet girder, i^77,360. As this bridge is on a 
 grade of 2.08 per 100 with a curve on tho western end of the span, tho 
 staud;iid load was increased by 25 per cent., which brought the cost 
 of the structure to $96,075.67, of which $74,032.88 is for steel and 
 the balance for masonry, retaining walls and floor. 
 
 The Salmon Eivor bridge, put in by the Government, over tho mouth 
 of a rapid stream on the Fraser liiver, 137 miles east of Vancouver, 
 was composed of one 200 feet span double intersection truss and two 
 spans of 80 feet. The double intersection truss gave out before tho 
 rond came into the hamls of tho Company, and was supported by 
 braees and straining beams. This class of truss, designed with a mini- 
 mumof ironaiida maximum of wood in the web members, on accoutit of 
 the great cost of iron on the Puoifio Coast, did not prove satisfactory, 
 and required strengthening or supporting in nearly every case before 
 the Company could run liciivy engines over it. With similar spans 
 these trusses have only about ono-half as much iron in the web members 
 as an ordinary Howe truss ; in this truss the proportion was as 9 to 16. 
 The river at the point of crossing is very rapid, and false works would 
 have been difiicult to erect and maintain, so it was decided to put up a 
 hinged arch of 270 feet span and three spans of 50 feet, estimated to 
 
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 cost $44,413. To rebuild tho struoloro with one span of 160 foet, oiM' 
 80 feet, one 70 feet and one 60 feet, the cost was cstimsted at 955,- 
 807. Wlion excavating for the foundation of the west abutment in • 
 mica soliist, similar to thiit at Stony Greek, an extensive allde took 
 place, wliioh neoossitaled greatly increasing tho quantity of masonry 
 and loiigthcnin>{ the gap to be covered, so that tho bridge, as built 34 
 feet south of tho old structure, ia made up of one 270 ieet hinged arch 
 and four 50 feet plate girders, the cost of which was $57,966. The 
 arch was erected as a cantilever, ns shown on Plan No. II. 
 
 hi giving this very general idea of the character of the work done, 
 and in showing to some slight extent the economy that has followed 
 the use of temporary work in the original construction, I have tres- 
 passed longer upon your paticnco than I intended. Much that would 
 be very instructive has had to be passed over entirely, and none of tho 
 work has been more than touched upon. 
 
 In conclusion, I would like to impress upon our younger members 
 the necessity that exists in this new" Country for tho practice of coon- 
 omy in all the works tliey hnppen to be engaged upon. 
 
 Wo have a great work to do in building up a Country which stretches 
 from the Atlantic lo tho Pacific, filled as it is with great natural 
 resources of uU kinds awaiting development, and but little money to 
 do it with ; and if we can so carry out our works that they are good 
 and substantial, and at the same time cheaply constructed, so that the 
 Capitalists who furnish the money can get a fair return for its use, wc 
 may expect more money from thorn, and other works will be carried 
 out that will give employment to Engineers and prosperity to our 
 Country. It is quite an easy matter to build an expensive structure, 
 but it is an Engineer's duty to build an effective structure for the 
 least possible cost, and after his design is made perfect as to its stabil- 
 ity, he should proceed to removo from it everything that is not abso- 
 lutely necessary and that has no duty to perform, remembering that he 
 must never build ornaments, but that good and wise construction will 
 be ornamental in itself. 
 
 Finally, you must also remember that your success in life depends on 
 your capacity and willingness to take infinite pains with every thing you 
 are called upon to carry out. You must be in downright earnest about 
 your work, and, above all things, yon must be absolutely and entirely 
 honest in every respect, never letting your convictions or opinions be 
 warped in any way for any consideration, and then, if you may not al- 
 ways command success, you will at least deserve it, which is oiitn better. 
 
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